Vulnerability & Exploit Database

Debian: CVE-2018-16949: openafs -- security update

Severity

CVSS

Published

Added

Modified

5

(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

September 11, 2018

September 25, 2018

February 19, 2019

Description

An issue was discovered in OpenAFS before 1.6.23 and 1.8.x before 1.8.2. Several data types used as RPC input variables were implemented as unbounded array types, limited only by the inherent 32-bit length field to 4 GB. An unauthenticated attacker could send, or claim to send, large input values and consume server resources waiting for those inputs, denying service to other valid connections.